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Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Afro-Caribbean and French classical composer, fencer, and violinist; Chevalier College, an MSC school in Bowral, Australia; Chevalier-Montrachet, a Grand Cru vineyard in the Côte de Beaune; Chevalier Garden, a public housing estate in Hong Kong
1780 Raynal and Bonne Map of Guadeloupe.Basse-Terre (in yellow) is a volcanic island in the French West Indies. Chevalier de Saint-Georges, also known as Joseph Bologne was born on 25 December 1745 in Baillif, Basse-Terre, the illegitimate son of a settler and planter Georges Bologne de Saint-Georges and Nanon, a 17-year-old enslaved African who served within the family household. [13]
Chevalier is a 2022 American biographical drama film based on the life of the titular French-Caribbean musician Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, played by Kelvin Harrison Jr. Directed by Stephen Williams and written by Stefani Robinson, it stars Samara Weaving, Lucy Boynton, Marton Csokas, Alex Fitzalan, Minnie Driver and Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo.
Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon (1959), a film loosely based on the life of the Chevalier that portrays d'Éon as a woman masquerading as a man. By Plume and Sword ( Пером и шпагой ), a novel by the Soviet writer Valentin Pikul , written in 1963 and first published in 1972, based on d'Éon's career in Russia.
Maurice Auguste Chevalier (French: [mɔʁis ʃəvalje]; 12 September 1888 – 1 January 1972) was a French singer, actor, and entertainer. [3]
Jacques Chevalier (French pronunciation: [ʒak ʃəvalje]; 13 March 1882 – 19 April 1962) was a French Catholic philosopher and a politician. Chevalier was born in Cérilly, Allier , educated at the École normale supérieure and the University of Oxford and taught at the Faculty of Letters in Grenoble .
Albert Chevalier (1861–1923), English comedian and actor; Anaïs Chevalier (born 1993), a French biathlete. Anne Chevalier (1912–1977), French Polynesian actress and dancer; Auguste Chevalier (1873–1956), French botanist; Antoine Gombaud, Chevalier de Méré (1607–1684), French writer; Caroline Chevalier (died 1917), British writer and ...
Étienne Chevalier (c.1410 in Melun – 1474) was a major civil servant of the French kings Charles VII and Louis XI. He is also notable for commissioning two major works by Jean Fouquet - the Melun Diptych (which he gave to the Collégiale Notre-Dame de Melun ) and the Hours of Étienne Chevalier (in which he is shown twice praying before the ...